Winning can be a joy. It’s what we are encouraged to do all the way from our childhood sports days at school to our modern workplace environment, both individually and as a team.

It’s a special kind of satisfaction to win at something you respect, or even love. To this day I remember being joyful beyond words when I won a Heinz “Noodle Doodles” art competition in Ireland back in the ...

Having attended the excellent Guardian Activate last year, I was hugely honoured to be invited to present at Activate 2014 *and* also DJ afterwards for the stellar lineup of speakers and guests from the worlds of mobile, tech, the sharing economy and especially the world of FinTech innovation.

Here is the presentation, delivered in a whisker over 5 minutes. The “It’s The Year Of Mobile” slide was delivered flashing with a QI klaxon sound, highlighting the fact that every year is ...

(My latest blog for OpenMarket – to read the original post click here)

A few months ago I shared the following Wikipedia definition at a conference in London… “an information silo is a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related information systems”. A rumble of agreement grew from the assembled audience of marketing and ...